The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 25th the French steamer Hin
doostan, Captain Lot, which had just ar
rived at Marseilles, from New York, took
fire and was entirely burned. She had
5000 tons Of merchandise on board, all Of
which was destroyed.
AMERICAN swindlers have ''worked"
London banks recently for sums Of money
aggregating 500, 600.
The residence of Adelina Patti, in
Wales, is reported to have been entered
by burglars and a quantity Of valuable
iewelry stolen.
BISHOP GnMoUR's residence in Clsve.
land, o., adjoining st. Johns Cathedral,
was entered by burglars on the night Of
the 25th, who stole all the linen belonging
TO the establishment. The thieves tried to
blow open the door of the safe, but were
not successful.
A NEST Of rookeries In Newark, N. J.,
one of which was occupied by the Schuy-
Ter Electric Light Company, and another
by White &c Garrison's stables, were
burned on the 26th. Ten horses and seven
cows perished in the flames; loss about
10000.
IN his confession to the coroner the San
francisco suicide, Benhayon, states that
before be killed his sister to get the insur-
snce on her life she had been consulting
with him about poisoning her husband IN
order to get the money on his life.
L. HONG, part owner of a laundry in
New York, was found dead with his
throat cut in the laundry on the 26th.
The case is supposed TO have been one of
suicide, but is being investigated.
FIRE at Portage, Wis, on the 26th, to-
tally des troyed the Portage steam Touring
mill. The fire is supposed to have been
incendiary, as the mill had not been run
ming for week. Loss, $4,000; no insure
once.
TESTIMONY at the coroner's inquest in
the Benhayon case at San Francisco leads
to the conclusion that Benhayon was
poisoned.
THE Panhandle Railroad Company
paid $1,000 as a compromise FOR the killing
of Joseph Rich and child, the injury of
his wife and the loss of team. The acci-
dent was the result Of fast running at a
bad crossing.
ON the 9th John Glass, aged sixty
years, a resident of Loretto, Pa, while
driving a pair of horses over the railroad
crossing at Lilly's station, was struck by
the day express and fatally injured. Both
horses were instantly killed.
SYsTEBIATIC robb'ng of freight cars on
the Southern Pacific railroad has been go
ing on for six months between TuscOn,
Ariz., and FL Pas0. Detectives have ar
rested J. Griffith, freight conductor, and
Charles Eddy and J. Burchmel freight
brakemen. The evidence pointed strong
" TO them. ALI confessed their guilt and
implicated others.
THE argument of the motion for a writ
of error in the case of the condemned Chi
cago Anarchists was concluded in the
United States Supreme Court at Washing
ton on the 2Sth.
TRAIN wreckers threw a Rock Island
train from the track, near Morris, Ills, on
the night of the 9th, killing two men.
TESTIMONY taking was virtually con-
cluded, on the 2Sth, n "Blinky'' Morgan's
trial at Rave-Ga, o.
CLARANCE CRAWFORD, a young man of
Ottawa, Kas., was killed in a railroad ac-
cident in Maine, on the 2Sth.
NICHOLAS BUTTE, mate of the White
river steamboat Joe Peters, was killed by
a negro deck-hand at Memphis, Tenn, on
the 2Sth.
Two men wero killed and number in
jured on the 26th, by the explosion of
chemicals in a carriage factory at Cleve-
land, o.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire swept over the
Omaha (Neb) fair grounds on the 2Sth,
burning all but one of the buildings,
sheds, etc. Loss, 900.
THE saloon Of Peter Camp, at Russia
vile, two miles west Of Kokomo. Ind, was
blown up by dynamite on the corning of
the 2Sth, as we'll as a livery stable adjoin-
ing. A man who slept in the stable was
badly injured.
THE American ship FanOn was torn
from her anchorage at Dantzig during the
recent storm on the Baltic, and came into
collision with three barges laden with
sugar. sinking them and inhicting g damage
to tho amount of $50 0O0.
LIMA GEIssERT, aged twenty-six years,
the maniac daughter of John Geissert, a
we'll known Milwaukee (Wis.) saloon
keeper, eluded her keeper on the 2Sth, and
after saturatng hor clothing with kero-
sene oil set fire to her person. She was
burnt in a shocking manner and will
probably die.
NEAR New Burlington, eight miles south
of Indianapolis, Ind, on the 2Sth, Pat
Sheckley shot James Carey twice, in
HiCtinC wounds from which he died in a
few hours. Shcctley then placed the re-
volver to his own head and fired, killing
himself instantly.
JOSEPH BRUCENER, a German, aged
LuILN-nNeq employ eO IN bne barD-W Ire
mill at Allentown, Pa, while tempo
rarily insane, on the 2Sth, made an at.
tempt to kill his wife, but she succeeded
in escaping from the house. Bruckner
then deliberately cut the arteries of his
wrists and his throat from ear to ear, dy-
in q in half an hour.
PHILIP Cross and John O'Hara were
found at AIpena, Mich, on the morning of
the 2Sth in the saloon of the former, un-
head, and Cross had his head chopped
open with an axe. It is supposed they
fought together Both were fatal Y
wounded.